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Whilst working for the Maldives government I was always aware of the need to resist the temptation of making sweeping statements about the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise in the service of wider political ends. I saw part of my role as advisor to push back against the simplistic view that given that we know that the planet is warming, and the seas are rising, surely the impacts – in terms of erosion, flooding events and disasters – should increasingly be visible now, right?
A new paper published in the AGU's house journal Eos Transactions shows why caution is often justified. Here (via a screengrab, as the entire thing is behind a password) is the 1993-2011 sea level trend data from Tarawa atoll, part of Kiribati in the central Pacific:
Whoa! No sea-level rise there, then. And yet of course climate campaigners – and even the Kiribati government – understandably anxious to highlight the future existential threat to the islands, have used storm surges, flooding events and suchlike as evidence of current sea-level rise impacts. Which they are almost certainly not, at least not in Tarawa atoll anyway.
To me the graph is interesting for two reasons. The first is the absence of any trend over the last 20 years towards increased sea levels in that part of the Pacific. This should be expected, because sea level rise as a computed average means that the oceans are rising in more places than they are falling, but they are falling in some places nonetheless. (Just as a few areas of the globe have got colder over recent years.) The second is the sheer up-and-down massive variability in actual sea levels, which is linked to the El Niño cycle. The author (Simon Donner, a geographer from the University of British Columbia, Canada) points out in the Eos paper that the monthly mean sea level dropped by nearly half a metre (45cm) between March 1997 and February 1998 because of switch from El Niño to La Niña conditions, and peaks of 15cm were seen in each of the recent El Niño events – which as the author points out is "equivalent to 50 years of global sea level rise at the rate observed since 2000 of 3 mm per year".
So the problem with attributing sea-level rise impacts is the same as with attributing heat-waves, droughts, floods or other extreme events to climate change – you have to try to figure out what would have happened absent the global warming trend (in order to distinguish genuine impacts from noise), and also distinguish background changes from more direct anthropogenic interference which might confuse the picture. In a heatwave, for instance, were the extreme temperatures caused by the urban heat island effect in a more built-up area?
In Tarawa atoll, direct human interference probably explains the majority of what is often pointed to as evidence of sea-level rise impact, according to Donner. Because few readers will be able to access the paper online, I will take a leaf out of Judith Curry's book and quote extensively from it here:
The combination of natural weather – and climate – driven variability in sea level and the astronomical tidal cycle can lead to flooding and erosion events, particularly in sand-dominated systems like atolls and barrier islands. For example, the 2004–2005 ENSO event contributed to two major flooding events in Tarawa. During a 'king' tide on 10 February 2005, water flooded several causeways between the islets in South Tarawa and damaged the hospital in the town of Betio. A second flooding event occurred 2 weeks later, despite the lower daily tidal range, because of record high winds (47 knots at Betio) and record-low surface level pressure (999.2 hectopascals). Even though the maximum gauge height was 25 centimeters below that reached 2 weeks earlier, the northwest winds generated lagoon waves that again breached sea walls, flooded causeways, and damaged homes and public infrastructure.
These flooding events, though statistically more likely to happen as global average sea level rises, are themselves no more evidence of rising sea level than an individual heat wave is evidence of rising global temperatures. Despite a continued global average sea level rise, the gauge height reached on 10 February 2005 in Tarawa has not been surpassed since.
The paper then goes on to discuss some direct human impacts which can impact shoreline dynamics with or without a sea-level trend:
Three types of shoreline modification that are typical in low-lying island nations have altered sediment supply and island shape in South Tarawa [Webb, 2005]. First, land reclamation, accomplished by infilling behind a constructed sea wall, has increased land area in some locations but exacerbated erosion and inundation in others. The shoreline of islets like Bairiki has been extended lagoonward through the construction of government facilities, landfills, maneabas (community meeting houses), and individual homes [Webb and Kench, 2010]. At the same time, poor engineering of sea walls has led to erosion at the airport and the hospital [Webb, 2005] on the islet of Bikenibeu and also led to inundation of reclaimed lands along the lagoon shoreline in Abarao and other islets.
Second, the practice of mining of beaches and barrier reefs for construction materials, common in Kiribati, Tuvalu, and other atoll nations, can make the shoreline more vulnerable to tidal extremes and storms [Webb, 2005]. Almost three quarters of the households in South Tarawa mine sand, gravel, and reef rock from the lagoon or the ocean reef, with one third doing so more than once a week [Greer Consulting Services, 2007]. Although the effect of beach mining on the shoreline is difficult to distinguish from that of other coastal processes, concern is sufficient to warrant European Union investment in a midlagoon dredging project to provide an alternative source of fill.
Last, the construction of causeways between islets has altered islet evolution. Unlike a bridge, a solid, hard-topped causeway limits or blocks the natural flow of sediment between the ocean and the lagoon. Causeway construction allowed nearshore currents to deposit sediment along the lagoon beaches of South Tarawa islets like Bairiki and Nanikai [Solomon and Forbes, 1999]. These densely populated islets have actually grown in area over the past few decades [Webb and Kench, 2010] because of the unintentional impacts of local development on sediment supply, land reclamation, and natural processes. This accretion, however, came at the cost of other islets. The lagoon islet of Bikeman, which was dotted with coconut trees during the Battle of Tarawa, is now a sandbar that disappears from view at high tide. Despite some claims to the contrary by climate activists, the loss of this once popular resting spot for fishermen is primarily due to the construction of the Betio-Bairiki causeway, which redirects sediment flow.
This leads to important communications issues, of course. So whilst I have no truck with sceptics like Nils-Axel Mörner, who use highly-questionable anecdotes in one small area to 'prove' that the entire global rise in sea levels isn't happening, I do feel that any degree of exaggeration simply leaves an open goal for sceptics to belittle the real challenges these island countries face. It is therefore counter-productive as well as dishonest (intentionally or unintentionally). Ergo:
The failure to consider the contribution of natural variability and direct human modifications can lead to misattribution of flooding events or shoreline changes to sea level rise. Tarawa, the most easily accessible atoll in Kiribati, is a popular destination for journalists and activists interested in observing and communicating the impacts of sea level rise on a low-lying nation. For example, a Greenpeace slide show within an explanation of what sea level rise means that depicts the 2005 flooding remains among the top responses to an Internet query of "Kiribati" and "sea level rise." These common images of flooded homes and waves crashing across the causeways—collected during an anomalous event on islets susceptible to flooding due in part to local modifications to the environment—can provide the false impression that Tarawa is subject to constant flooding because of sea level rise.
The attribution problem is further magnified by the political situation. The Kiribati government faces the difficult challenge of raising international awareness about the local impacts of climate change to support adaptation and mitigation efforts. Interpreting the causes of shoreline changes or flood events, as well as predicting the local impacts of sea level rise, is challenging for a developing country with limited resources for scientific investigations. Many individual observations of erosion, flooding, or groundwater salinization, recorded in community consultations for internationally funded climate change adaptation programs, are thus attributed to climate change without scientific analysis [e.g., Mackenzie, 2004]. These events are presented as examples of climate change impacts in promotional materials and at international events (e.g., "Our Road to Copenhagen," a Kiribati side event at COP15 in Copenhagen), without any mention of ENSO-driven natural variability or local shoreline modification.
Such unverified attribution can inflame or invite skepticism of the scientific evidence for a human-caused increase in the global sea level. After Webb and Kench [2010] reported that the area of 23 atoll islets in Kiribati and neighboring countries had remained stable or increased over the past 20–60 years, some of the international news media reported that the effects of sea level rise on atoll nations were exaggerated and that Kiribati is not threatened by future sea level rise (e.g., R. Callick, Coral islands left high and dry, The Australian, 2010). Though the study did show evidence that atoll islets were dynamic and do not necessarily decrease in area in response to sea level rise, the islets in question remain vulnerable to inundation from global mean sea level rise in the future, as the authors stressed in a subsequent briefing note.
The challenge of differentiating between observed changes in the coastal environmental and the projected impact of sea level rise is not unique to Kiribati. For example, the Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have been migrating from their home atoll for decades because overpopulation, human development, and natural disasters, in addition to sea level rise, have caused coastal erosion and reduced water availability [Connell, 1990]. Nevertheless, the Carteret Islanders are commonly called the world's first climate change "refugees" in outreach and documentary films (e.g., The Rising Tide).
The upshot?
Instead of incorrectly attributing individual flood events or shoreline changes to global sea level rise, scientists and climate communicators can use such occurrences to educate the public about the various natural and human processes that affect sea level, the shoreline, and the shape of islands. This would better prepare the public and policy makers for the changes that societies are likely to experience as global sea level rises in the coming decades.
I couldn't agree more. If island nations are making themselves more vulnerable to the slow process of sea-level rise by mining sand, destroying reefs and so on, they need to know about it – and not be encouraged to blame it all on outsiders causing climate change. In the case of the impacts currently affecting Kiribati, 'mitigation' means changing local practices as much as changing global ones. And therein lies a lesson for us all.
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Nils is more of an expert that you ate Mark.. little unfair to label him as a sceptic
He is just a little cross to be labelled a denier, (by others) just to merely point out many of the issues that you just have.
Ie lots of what you have just written, would get you called a sea level rise denier, in many quarter's, just for talking,about all the issues.
Nils is angry with the IPCC, which is not to be angry with science, or to be a sceptic or a denier. It us to be angry with the politicisation of science.
I have met him once.. nice chap, but perhaps come across badly compared to the PowerPoint generation of science.
There is an Ippc report that if you dig deep enough, does give his criticisms, some↓
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.. support.
At planet under pressure. One speaker spoke about trying to persuade construction companies not to do this..
Similarly, islands like Tuvalu are at the edge of human habitabilty. Ie dependeent on rainwater, isolated. Not where you would choose to live. Add to that population pressures, on scare resources anyway. Make any real or imagined projected sea level rise the least if people problems, along with local marine polution, etc
Yet all to often this is all forgotten, as far easier for local peoples, politicians to blame their environmental failings on someone/somethingelse
Hopefully, all these issues can be discussed, with out dome enviros, going into knee jerk climate change denier mode.
Do check out how exactly the ipcc come up with sea level figures, as their is some justification of the criticisms of the methodology↓
Barry – you entire post above is based on dividing people into tribes, not on what is written by Mark.
There are many scientists and "warmists" to guess at a label you might apply who constantly question details of the science, and debate how best to communicate our understanding in ways that deal with the general global problem and the local impacts, and the variations in confidence that scientists have in different areas of climate science.
Indeed – many of the issues that have been used by those arguing against IPCC view – like so-called Himalya-gate – were uncovered not by "sceptics" but by scientists who accept the general IPCC thrust but question everything.
I don't agree with Mark on everything but am glad he challenges and probes. But what is important is he does this using all evidence and rigorous standards of checking – not by cherry-picking.↓
Mark divide people into tribes – ref his Nils comment – I'm suggesting not to.
Barry – much more in agreement with end of second post which wasn't there when I responded. Perhaps if "deniers" would be more responsible there would be more chance of what you call for – you can't just blame the other side.↓
if people get called 'deniers' for merely pointing out all these issue, they would not get so cross at people that called them 'deniers'
I'm trying to persuade people to end the vicious circle of name calling- it is v hard.
To be clear, there is a problem within the environmental sphere.
To point out in the past that Kiribati is not (at the moment sinking)
is to have been called all sorts of names, by some, and accusations made about anybody suggesting these very real issues, especially construction/erosion (ie must be a sceptic/denier, part of fossil fuel denial industry)
As is clear, from the above, and anybody that knows these islands, there are large man-made impact in the environments of these island, population pressure making things much worse. and that sea -level rise is a distraction from all these local issues.
Martyn – what do you mean if the deniers were more responsible.. People have only been repeatably called deniers by the likes of greenpeace, etc. for pointing out all the stuff Mark has just written about and complaining about the hyperbole
There come a point, when people get irritated and angry about this and they say sod 'responsibility', because they see lobbyists & politicians are not being responsible by hyping sea level. And they decide it is a political fight against the rhetoric, of some large and overly powerful green NGO's and politics, and they react. (mostly badly and counterproductively)
Which of course, just makes the polarisation worse..
Just try repeating anything Mark has just written, including local responsibility, to those groups shouting 'climate justice', you will be swiftly labelled as a 'denier'
The science says most of the environmetal issues currently around these islands are NOT to do with sea-level rise (at this time) but to say so, is to be insulted and ridiculed. At least that is my experience.
What happens in the future is of course a different issue and very much open to debate. The point is, politically, claims are made they are drowning now, because of 'climate change'
So I really welcome Mark's highlighting of the fact that the issues of small islands are not just down to one parameter, and acknowledging the politicisation of the issue, as a factor.
It gets awkward because I wasn't keen to use "deniers" as a catch all term, but for the sake of brevity ended up doing so.
I disagree with your fundamental point that environmentalists, or warmists, or whatever object to pieces that challenge aspects of our understanding of climate impacts. If the science is robust, and the conclusions not extrapolated beyond all reason then most welcome it as advancing knowledge, and try and locate it within our overall knowledge.
It is the frequent cherrypicking and misuse of such material by some "deniers" that gets backs up and makes dialogue harder. That is what I think is irresponsible.
And greenpeace doesn't cherry pick!
ie they claim 300k people are dying of climate change every year, which is not supported by any rigorous science, they use rhetoric about 'climate denial' about anyone that challenges them
The 'deniers' do not have the media at their disposal, nor multi million budgets, like Greenpeace, FOE, wwf, etc.. nor the resources of the departments of state.
everyone should be responsible. but it is very asymetric discussion, unfunded bloggers, vs multinationals ngo's and governments..
No, they just have paupers like the Koch Brothers and the Scaife Foundation.
Toby says: 24 August 2012 at 7:35 pm
"No, they just have paupers like the Koch Brothers and the Scaife Foundation."
Now, THIS is a highly intelligent contribution to the debate. This kind of argument is typically used when you are out of factual arguments. Just for the record: The Koch Brothers are sponsors to a large number of universities and institutes, irrelevant what they think of climate change.
This is the most stupid comment in an otherwise interesting and balanced discussion.
Also not at all sure you are right that green groups would object to Mark raising local decisions and their impacts on flood risk – have read much on mangrove swamps, reef protection etc.↓
try it for yourself.↓
Mark, aren't you the guy who arranged the photo of the Maldives govt folks all in their scuba gear, sitting at their desks under water? To 'highlight the problem of sea level rise'. If not, apologies, for mistaking you. If you were, however, how do you reconcile your own false propaganda with that pic with this post now that's all about accuracy?↓
For me, the underwater cabinet meeting was a tipping point.
It was a canonical 'jump the shark' moment.
That was when I realized that climate change driven SLR had nothing to do with careful science, and everything to do with sucking money out of developed countries.
NOAA Tides and Currents lists Kiribati SLR as 0.58 mm/yr, +/- 0.87 mm/yr, from 1949 to 2007.
also good to point out that in the maldives and other islands they have been using the coral for building for decades and the coral has still not recovered from the heavy usage in the 1970's which leads to sea erosion.
though they are building airports and hotel resorts at sea level so seems no worries about sea level rise.
Moreover having gone through: The South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project (SPSLCMP0. This has placed the most sophisticated equipment ever developed (SEAFRAME) on 12 Pacific Islands
i do not see any sea level rise of any note.↓
Guys, guys, listen I'm a marine biologist currently working in Chick'n you like between jobs so I know what I'm talking about. I've been to the Maldives. I've snorkelled in the waters around that atoll and what I saw worries the hell out of me.
Crabs with 14 claws and three eyes. Lobsters with tails. Swimming puffins with no wings, instead, three elongated fins just behind their tail feathers.
I've witnessed fish that fart. Yes they fart and every time they do you can see tears in their eyes as the pain is so intense.
People it's that serious! I've counselled fallen lapwings who fall from the sky exhausted by the release of carbon dioxide from a warming sea and the fact that sea level rise makes the distance between migrating flocks and sea surface smaller is increasing this terrible massacre. To date four more lapwings have died since January.
Now that it seems that rising temperatures are attracting wolves to the islands the danger to the inhabitants from voracious packs of these wolves can only lead to more death.
I urge you to do something and now. Occupy something. Do it in your town or city today. Even if it's only a phone booth it doesn't matter. Just do it.
Visit my website which, hopefully, should be up and running by late next year. Type "wolves on Tuvalu" into google for more info.
Is this comment a parody of an activist…
It sounds too hysterical to be true…
If true, whatever is happening to the creatures in you claims. It is ceratainly not due to current to date co2 level rise in the atmosphere or the ocean, or due to a rise in sea level
Three legged creatures, arc sounds very much more likely due to local marine pollution…
Just a thought are all those airports being built in dtilts for the future… How high?
"highly-questionable anecdotes"
Excellent description of CAGW. Many thanks. I'll hang onto that. Good Ad Hom on Mr. Morner as well. Par for the course.↓
I am puzzled by something you are doing here. I see you refer to 'skeptics' and 'deniers' as being two different groups…. could you please qualify these terms?↓
It's the same difference as that between an Agnostic and an Atheist. The Climate Change Agnostic is skeptical that it is man caused – maybe yes, maybe no, whilst the Climate Change Atheist denies that it man has anything to do with it.
Apologies, I came back to this thread believing it was the one I had been reading last night. Too many pages to go thru… There it is! I guess my question is to Barry Woods, then.↓
The figure doesn't show trend data, only monthly fluctuations. Data can be found here.
It doesn't matter if you choose 'Monthly sea level data' or 'metric sea level data'; both give a positive linear trend of 2.8 mm/yr and the trend is significant (p < 0.01).↓
That's right.
Yes, normally one should use the RLR data, but in this case I used the raw metric data to get the same y-scale as in the graph. It doesn't matter for the linear trend, because for all data points RLR = raw + 5267 mm for this station.
When data are cut off at the end of 2010 as in the EOS graph, the trend is a fraction lower (2.7 mm/yr) then the 2.8 mentioned in my first comment (latest data available is August 2011).
As I don't have access to the full paper, I can't tell what is exactly stated there. Does it mention a 'no sea level rise'?↓
Please do, and thanks.
I will leave a note on the blog of Simon Donner. It looks like he is in Kiribati at the moment.
Mark, I live at Gosford NSW Australia, our Government and local Council have adopted IPCC global average sea level rise projections and added to them resulting in projections of 90cm by 2100, further the local Council has added a sea level rise warning to property titles resulting in distress to local residents and increased insurance costs.
All this despite MHL ( a NSW gov department ) responsible for sea level rise monitoring advising the average local (Sydney NSW) rise over 100 years is 0.9mm a year and this has dropped to 0.4mm a year for the last 20 years the reverse of IPCC global average projections. I have perused many Government "sea level rise" policy statements and alarmingly none seem to include or reference local data, all rely on IPCC global average projections. Surely the various scientific advisors to the Australian governments are not that stupid?, is this lax science or calculated deceit ?↓


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Binge eating disorder is an illness that involves eating, in a specific period of time. More food is eaten than others eat in the same amount of time, under the same circumstances. It differs from bulimia. Its sufferers do not purge their bodies of the excess food via vomiting, laxative abuse, or diuretic abuse.
Individuals with binge eating disorder often:
Eat large quantities of food.
Do not stop eating until they are uncomfortably full.
Feel embarrassed by the amount of food they are eating.
Have a history of weight gains and losses.
Have more difficulty losing weight and keeping it off than people with other serious weight problems.
Binge eating disorder is found in about 1% to 2% of the general population. It is more often seen in women than men.
Medical complications that may result from binge eating disorder include the following:
Overweight or obesity
Increased risk for the following:
High cholesterol
High blood pressure
Gallbladder disease
Heart disease
Some types of cancer
Increased risk for psychiatric illnesses, particularly depression
People with binge eating disorder typically consume huge amounts of food at 1 time — often junk food — to reduce stress and relieve anxiety.
Guilt and depression usually follow binge eating.
People with binge eating disorder are at higher risk for depressive mood disorders, anxiety, and substance abuse.
To understand eating disorders, researchers have studied the neuroendocrine system. This is made up of a combination of the central nervous and hormonal systems.
The neuroendocrine system regulates many functions of the mind and body. It has been found that many of the following regulatory mechanisms may be, to some degree, disturbed in people with eating disorders:
Sexual function
Physical growth and development
Appetite and digestion
Heart function
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Many people with eating disorders also appear to suffer from depression. It is believed that there may be a link between these 2 disorders. For example:
Research has shown that some people with binge eating disorder may respond well to antidepressant medicine that affects serotonin function in the body.
Biochemical similarities have been discovered between people with eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and people with OCD often have abnormal eating behaviors.
Eating disorders tend to run in families, and female relatives are the most often affected. That is why genetic factors are believed to play a role in the disorders.
But, other influences, both behavioral and environmental, may also play a role. Consider these facts from the American Psychiatric Association:
Most people with binge eating disorder are adolescent and young adult women. Yet this disorder can also affect older women and males of any age.
People pursuing professions or activities that emphasize thinness, like modeling, dancing, gymnastics, wrestling, and long-distance running, are more prone to this disorder.
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Success Principle: Build You Career On Strengths Not Weaknesses
I have a cousin who was a skilled, talented artist in high school. Whenever he was painting a portrait, he would be playing his favorite rock band and be singing and dancing along … all at the same time!
One thing led to another, and his "artistic skills flourished into an entrepreneurial side business" and he started selling his portraits to supermarket chains!
Then it was time for college and his parents insisted on him choosing a career like "building engineering" that promised a stable income with lots of growth potentials vs. that of an entrepreneurial artist.


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Back in January, for instance, newly elected state Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove, freely admitted that gay marriage was at the heart of his desire to oust state GOP Chairman Pat Brady, who'd recently announced his support for a Senate bill to legalize same sex marriage.
"I believe we have to have a meeting to ask Pat for an explanation, to modify his actions or get a new CEO," Oberweis told the Kane County Chronicle back then. "Our CEO has taken very open, public action contrary to the organization, and that's unacceptable."
Immediately, however, more moderate GOP leaders pushed back hard against Oberweis, saying that ousting the party's chairman over gay marriage would send absolutely the wrong message to the voting public, which was coming around fast to supporting the issue. Young people, in particular, counted themselves as strong supporters of the concept, so the old ways of staunchly advocating outdated policies would continue to stunt the party's potential growth.
Oberweis didn't give up his challenge to Brady. Far from it. Indeed, he apparently came within a weighted percentage point of the required 60 percent vote to oust Brady during a planned emergency state party meeting last month. The meeting was canceled when some central committeemen decided to heed the commands of party leaders like U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk and House GOP Leader Tom Cross and backed off.
But while Oberweis didn't drop his attempt to force Brady out, he did change his tune on the reasons. A month after saying it was all about gay marriage, Oberweis told Chicago Public Radio, "It has nothing to do with gay marriage."
That even a guy like Oberweis felt the need to drastically retool his public message shows how far this issue has come and how even some on the hard social Right now understand that they have to walk a whole lot more softly or risk a voter backlash.
Since then, party leaders who want Brady ousted have kept a lid on their conservative colleagues' inflammatory rhetoric and tried hard to focus their ire on Brady's performance during last year's election campaign. Those objections ring hollow, however, because none of the state central committeemen uttered so much as a peep about Brady's tenure during a post-election state party meeting last December. This putsch is all about gay marriage, but the coup plotters at least have the sense to try and couch their terms in a more acceptable manner, which means that even they know they've lost the public debate.
State Sen. Bill Brady, a conservative Catholic Republican who has long opposed gay marriage has not taken a public position on Chairman Brady's tenure. Sen. Kirk Dillard, who has moved even further to the right since losing the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination to Bill Brady, is, like his former opponent, staunchly opposed to gay marriage. But, like Sen. Brady, Dillard has also refused to take a position on Chairman Brady's support for the issue, leaving it up to the state central committee to decide whether he should remain as the party's leader.
None of this is meant to suggest that state Senators Oberweis, Brady and Dillard are about to switch sides and support gay marriage, like U.S. Sen. Kirk eventually did last week. But it does suggest that even these hardened conservatives understand that they have all but lost the public debate on this particular issue and must tiptoe around it for fear of damaging their own political party.
Two years ago, it would've been considered impossible that a state GOP chairman here would so publicly support gay marriage. That, in and of itself, shows how far and how quickly the issue has progressed. But Chairman Brady has always been a part of the party's more moderate wing. I think what's more important here is how even some of the state's top socially conservative legislators have moderated their public messaging. They may not admit it, even to themselves, but their actions speak pretty loudly that they've lost this particular debate.
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Researchers at Ochanomizu University have built the EaTheremin, a fork that uses electricity to make a bleep-bloop racket. Is there any practical use for it? Not particularly. Does it turn dinnertime into a symphony of R2-D2's death knells? Oh yes.
Notes the fork's creators:
"The sound produced varies, depending on the resistance. When you bite the food on the end of the fork, electricity passes through your body, forming an equivalent circuit. The resistance value depends on the food, and the sound produced depends on the resistance."
"Electricity passes through your whole body, so no matter where you touch this to your body, you will get a sound. But because the inside of your mouth is the wettest part, you get a really good sound there."
"Our aim is that, because this creates a good rhythm, people will want to eat more, or try eating foods they didn't really like before. We think it would be great if children have fun with this."
I suppose it's a wise investment if you were going to psychologically torture your kids into eating healthy ("Every time you take a bite of the cheesecake, the ghosts come back!"). I'd buy one of these if it serenaded me with the Wilhelm Scream.
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May 7, 2010
The Cato Institute has compiled information on botched SWAT thug raids around the country and produced the map below. The map graphically reveals how often militarized police mistakenly terrorize citizens as the government pursues its totalitarian drug war.
From Cato:
The proliferation of SWAT teams, police militarization, and the Drug War have given rise to a dramatic increase in the number of "no-knock" or "quick-knock" raids on suspected drug offenders. Because these raids are often conducted based on tips from notoriously unreliable confidential informants, police sometimes conduct SWAT-style raids on the wrong home, or on the homes of nonviolent, misdemeanor drug users. Such highly-volatile, overly confrontational tactics are bad enough when no one is hurt — it's difficult to imagine the terror an innocent suspect or family faces when a SWAT team mistakenly breaks down their door in the middle of the night.
But even more disturbing are the number of times such "wrong door" raids unnecessarily lead to the injury or death of suspects, bystanders, and police officers. Defenders of SWAT teams and paramilitary tactics say such incidents are isolated and rare.
A map showing raids on correctly identified addresses would be ten-deep with markers.
Alex Jones has produced a video (below) in response to a brutal drug raid in Missouri that resulted in steroid SWAT cops executing one family dog and wounding another during a drug raid that netted less than a gram of marijuana. Alex describes how the government imports drugs (primarily heroin and cocaine) and then brutalizes and imprisons citizens who are foolish enough to consume drugs.
People are outraged by the thuggish and murderous behavior of the cops in Missouri. "In Columbia, police are getting death threats over a February drug raid where SWAT team members shot a suspect's dogs, killing one of them," reports the Crime Scene KC blog. "The department's police chief is defending the officers, saying the pit bull was acting aggressively. The other dog is a corgi and lived. The chief notes they're reviewing their policies on raids because of the raid."
Jonathan E. Whitworth entered into a plea agreement with the state to drop charges of possession of marijuana and second-degree child endangerment for a guilty plea to possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune.
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Psychotic cops like shooting dogs during drug raids. In 2008, a Maryland SWAT team raided the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo and shot two of his dogs to death. "It's worth emphasizing that these were labs. Not the most intimidating dog in the world. Of course, offing the dog is almost standard procedure in these things, now," writes Radley Balko. "On the other hand, maybe once a few public officials feel the brunt end of the militarized drug war, we'll get some real discussion about whether it's all really necessary."
Calvo was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing. Police refused to apologize for executing his pets.
Cops not only kill dogs during drug raids. They also murder people. In 2006 cops in Atlanta, Georgia, slaughtered 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston with a hail of gunfire during a botched raid. In order to cover up their crime, the police planted bags of marijuana in Johnston's house after her death.
The murder was so outrageous and public outrage so intense the state of Georgia was obliged to put three cops on trial.
"The fundamental travesty is the use of such paramilitary-style police tactics in the first place. It has become commonplace in the US drug war for teams of black-clad anti-drug officers to knock down doors without warning, often in the middle of the night, setting off stun grenades, tackling confused residents to the ground and handcuffing them or waving guns in their faces or holding guns to their heads — sometimes even children," writes David Borden in response to the death of Alberta Spruill during a mistaken drug raid in New York. The 57-year-old Harlem woman died of a heart attack after police threw a stun grenade into her apartment. New York ended up paying $1.6 million to Spruill's family.
Indeed, as Borden notes, the drug war is a travesty. It has nothing to do with preventing the consumption of illegal drugs, however, as the government and the corporate media tell us. It is about making a tidy profit for the CIA (so they can run their covert ops off the books) and Wall Street. It is also an excuse to militarize the cops and expand the for-profit prison industry.
Militarized cops that have cut their teeth on harmless drug users will be soon be used on the American people as they turn out in the streets in response to the Greatest Depression now unfolding.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Decisions We Make
According to bystanders, he had been driving his sedan dangerously fast, some estimates of nearly 100 m.p.h., before losing control. The car veered off the roadway to the right, flipping mid-air before smacking head-on into a magnificent tree. It was unclear if the driver had been thrown from the vehicle or eased out of it by witnesses at the scene.
The prehospital call came from an experienced paramedic who's shallow, rapid breathing and abbreviated sentences clearly defined the dire circumstances of this patient. "We are bringing you a male patient, approximate age twenty, involved in a single-car MVC (motor vehicle collision). The patient's vital signs are stable. He has no, I repeat--no, leg movements and cannot feel us touching him on his abdomen." The paramedic took a deep breath before she continued. "The patient also has priaprism."
"Is the patient talking?" the charge nurse taking the radio call asked.
"If it weren't for the forehead laceration and his neurological deficits, you wouldn't even know this guy was in an accident," came the reply.
From this short conversation, we were able to garner some very important information. One, the patient had an obvious spinal cord injury. With his leg weakness and loss of sensation below the abdomen, we could assume that the level was somewhere in the thoracic or lumbar area. Two, his vital signs were stable, which went against an injury above T6. A spinal cord injury above this area can result in neurogenic shock, where the patient may exhibit extremely unstable hypotension and bradycardia. The paramedic had told us the patient's vital signs were stable. And three, this patient had priaprism--a persistant erection that, in this circumstance, was indicative of a spinal cord injury.
It was not sounding good for this patient.
We prepared the trauma room for this patient's impending arrival. He was being flown directly to our facility from the scene of the accident, about an hour away by car. Just minutes by chopper. A trauma alert was called, which ensured that the CT scanner was vacant and ready, that the trauma team would respond and work hand-in-hand with our ER team, that respiratory therapists would bring a ventilator and intubation trays, and that all other services were placed on high-alert to immediately respond as needed.
Within minutes, the chopper landed on our parking garage rooftop and the patient was rushed into our department, Trauma Room 18. Surpisingly, just as the paramedic has described, he did not appear to be acutely ill or injured upon first impressions.
He had sandy brown hair with matted bangs from the clotted blood of his forehead injury. His eyes were brown and frightened. He was covered in pale gray blankets, monitors and wires poking out from different angles. He was on a transport board with a hard supportive neck collar wrapped tightly in place to prevent him from moving his head.
Our eyes met. I walked up to the head of the bed as the nurses began obtaining new vital signs and my ER resident and the trauma doctor began their exams. "Hey, buddy," I said, bending down and talking calmly into his ear, "everybody in this room is going to be working hard to help you with your injuries. You are going to be getting poked and prodded and asked a million and one questions, but you have to bear with us. Okay?" He nodded at my words. After a moment's hesitation, he spoke, his voice soft, quiet, disheartened.
"Can somebody call my mom and dad and let them know where I am and what happened?"
"Of course," I assured him, calling in our case manager to his bedside to get a phone number. "We'll talk to them and let them know that you are here in our ER."
I performed my exam, first checking to make sure that his vital signs were stable. They were. I listened to his heart and lungs. All was normal. I palpated his abdomen, impressed by the horizontal line of xxx's that the flight paramedic had drawn across his abdomen to show the loss of sensation below. I did a motor strength test of his arms, which were strong and without deficit, and his legs, which were thick and heavy and without movement. It is quite disconcerting to have a young, healthy, strong patient lay in bed and not be able to move his legs at your command. I held his legs in the air, six inches from the cot, and told the patient to hold them there when I let go. They dropped with a thud. I pinched his great toes, we poked his feet with a clean pin, and still, nothing. He had absent reflexes of both legs.
Finally, my ER resident gained my attention by clearing his throat. He was standing at this patient's right side, lifting the gray sheets from the patient's torso. Sadly, he was showing me the patient's priaprism.
I can assure you that, of all of the telltale signs of sustaining a bad injury, priaprism is one of the worst. You can get priaprism from many various causes (sickle cell disease, medications, etc.), but when it happens hand-in-hand with trauma and some form of paralysis, the results are usually not favorable. Hell, the results are devastating, pure and simple.
I went back to the head of this patient's bed to speak to him. I explained all our clinical results on exam, and told him he would be going to the CT scan immediately. He nodded, wiped a tear from his right eye, and spoke. "My parents are going to kill me."
This patient returned from CT scan with the devastating results that we were expecting. He had sustained a vertebral fracture in his mid-thoracic region that had transected his spinal cord, cutting off all nerve innervation to the rest of the body below that area of injury.
Damn it all.
Neurosurgery was called, the OR was placed on standby, and the patient was emergently transferred to our ICU. Although we could do nothing about the permanence of the complete transection of his spinal cord, this patient would need surgery to stabilize his vertebral fractures. He had a long road ahead of him.
Imagine being this patient's mother and father. Imagine that phone call that came their way at 2 a.m. It is every parent's worst nightmare. Imagine driving an hour to arrive at a hospital you are not familiar with, only to find out that your child has just become a permanent paraplegic. How do you survive such devastation?
You raised a son, giving him your best through his formative years, wishing for all of the world's best offerings to come his way. Unfortunately, due to some poor decision-making, he wrecked his car, becoming an instant paraplegic. That little boy who jumped on his bed after bedtime stories, that young teenager who ran and played ball with the family dog until both passed out from sheer exhaustion, and that brave high-school graduate who walked sheepishly across the graduation stage just a few short years ago--that life would remain in the past, all those dreams and hopes tidied and packaged into the box of life's disappointments.
To be visited time and time again.
Ironically, as I wrote this post last night on my back deck, several medical helicopters flew overhead, I'm sure following their path along the lake's edge towards our hospital. I can only hope all was well...As always, big thanks for reading. See you soon.
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- The Hopeful Elephant said...
I wish, with all of my heart, that more physicians viewed life and it's sacredness---and the quality of life---as much as you do. I truly think the world would be a better place.
That poor kid worrying about his parents being mad rather than worrying about the fact that life as he knew it was over....heartbreaking. :(
- August 11, 2010 at 9:58 AM
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- August 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Kate said...
No. His parent's are not going to kill him. They are going to be grateful over and over and over again that he is simply alive.
- August 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM
- Katie Axelson said...
What a way to start my morning, thanks, Jim.
When I was in high school, we had four or five youth involved in MVCs in a six month span. Some were poor decisions, some were avoidable, some were alcohol-related... all were devastating. I didn't know anyone personally, but they all shook my world.
I was in an accident in October. Two cars tried to occupy the same spot at once, and I saw the whole thing unfold. As a passenger, there wasn't anything I could do, only so many times I could say, "Jess, he doesn't see us." She never heard me. Both cars were totaled but all of the people were uninjured. I'm ten-times more adamant about seat-belt use now, and I have resolved myself to forever be a backseat driver: I'd rather be annoying than in a crushed car.
There's a billboard on my way to work that shows a sign in a rear view mirror reading, "Let's go out for ice cream after you paralyze us." I don't think I'll ever see that billboard in the same way again. I wish there was a way for young drivers to read a testimony like this.
<>< Katie
- August 11, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- AtYourCervix said...
Thank you for showing such compassion!
- August 11, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- CharityVL said...
This brought me to tears. It can happen at any time....to anyone. Thanks for the reminder.
- August 11, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- J-Quell'n said...
Damn. A sobering reminder of how life can change in an instant.
- August 11, 2010 at 11:53 AM
His parents will be glad he's alive. We lost my 32 year old cousin last summer to a head injury from a car accident. The only good thing to come out of it is we donated his organs and now others live on.
- August 11, 2010 at 9:27 PM
- Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...
how tragic. i feel so bad for the whole family. just the thought of that call makes me have chills. truly heartbreaking.
- August 11, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Rositta said...
There have been many bad decisions made by young men in this part of the world recently leading to serious injuries and death. It has always been thus and always will be. I was always my worst fear raising a son but I guess you just have to trust them at some point to make good decisions, what else can you do. Tearjerker post my friend...ciao
- August 11, 2010 at 10:23 PM
This is a very sad story but this kid's life is far from over. He can recover and go on to live a full, happy life because he has good upper body strength and an intact brain. I'm not saying he definitely will but he certainly can.
-whitecap nurse
- August 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
As always such a great post jim!!
This post made me wanna reach through the computer screen and hold this kids hand and be there to comfort him. I was in an accident last summer (although nothing as bad as this kids') and I remember being sooo scared and guilty and shock and all these emotions. I recently just got my "N" (one step under a full licence in my province) and was driving my parents car, when I wasnt paying full attention, ran through a Red light and teboned a car turning left that was clearing the intersection. Luckily everyone was ok (considering their car flipped and they were in a convertible, with the top down, THANK GOD THEY WERE WEARING THEIR SEATBELTS) But we were all taken to hospital to get checked out. I remember being soo frieghtened and shocked, and I just had whiplash and a broken arm. I couldnt even imagine finding out that I was paralyzed. Like Kate said, his parents will just be happy that he is alive. I also thought my parents were going to kill me (how the hell was i gonna get outta that one--"hey mom and dad, sorry i ran through a red, oh and btw, it was your car")but they were just thankful i was ok. Although, a week after the accident I definately got "the lecture" lol.
I commend you for being the voice of calm for the guy, I can gaurantee you that even though it probably didnt seem like much, the fact that you were calm and compassionate probably made him a little at ease.
Again, great post, and keep up the great work!!
- August 12, 2010 at 2:15 AM
i'm reading this after pronouncing a gentleman on a motorcycle who ran into an SUV this morning at an intersection. Puts a tear in my eye thinking about being the one who bears the weight of delivering that news. And even more sad is that these things seem to keep happening when people are so close to home.
In some ways that boy is lucky, but in other ways he has a lot more challenges to face that are based on one split second decision.
Thanks for sharing this. :)
- August 12, 2010 at 11:43 AM
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- August 12, 2010 at 10:39 PM
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Sorry for the deleted comment! I thought it didn't work so I emailed it...then saw that google was just kidding about the "comment too large" thing apparently. I didn't want the longgg comment to drive people insane so I deleted it.
Thank you so much for this story, and for opening my eyes to the potentially dangerous decisions I've been making.
- August 12, 2010 at 10:48 PM
- Rogue Medic said...
You smoothly included information about the proper assessment of possible spinal cord injuries. The marking of the line of sensation and others, that may remain with readers long after they may think they have forgotten about this. Nicely done.
- August 13, 2010 at 7:22 AM
My uncle became a quadraplegic after a fall from a tree 25 years ago. He was deer hunting, and there was a problem with his safety harness. My cousins, now adults, were four and six years old. Incredible how much can change so fast.
- August 13, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- coulrophobic agnostic said...
Damn. Though I normally don't feel huge amounts of sympathy for reckless drivers, it makes me so sad that so many people get hurt, often for NO good reason beyond poor decision making.
Just so POINTLESS. But thank god he still can use his arms, his head, speak, breathe on his own, feed himself. As bad as it was, it could have been a lot worse.
Why do these injuries cause priapism?
- August 14, 2010 at 3:54 AM
- Annemiek said...
So terribly sad! His and his family's life is changed forever. I hope to never experience anything like that. Some decisions can ruin a life.
- August 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- Karen said...
I hope this boy has the courage to make the best of his life while paralyzed. Sad, sad situation.
- August 14, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- soulful sepulcher said...
Of course, while reading I hoped the end result was not going to be permanent that way.
When I was 16 and in a head on collision (red light runner hit my car)the paramedics turned their sirens off when they approached the scene, telling my mom they assumed it was a fatal scene. I was tossed all over the car like a rag doll, according to witnesses. I, to this day have no memory from that accident except for the medic's face who asked me what my phone number was to call my mom...multiple injuries, ripped apart knee, head trauma, I was able to say the number. For a month after that, I repeated the same day and date when asked as I recovered, it took 3 months to bend my knee again.
I was alive. I did not have a seatbelt on, and have worn one ever since.
As an adult, I had a friend lose her teen son to speeding and not buckled up, as he was ejected from the car via the window when he hit a telephone pole.
After my car accident I attended a teen bible study that summer. The young pastor said, to watch ourselves, in all areas, as to "don't become another statistic in the newspaper".
I told that to my kids as they learned to drive, and I'll tell it to anyone reading here. Life, is more fragile that it appears. Fleeting. The young man in this story is alive, and hopefully happy, though life not as expected, it's the same for all of us....live in the moment.
- August 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Have Myelin? said...
Life changes on a dime but at least he has life. And no... his parents won't be mad at him, they'll be grateful he's alive.
- August 17, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Gut-wrenching, yes, but am I the only voice saying "thank goodness his reckless driving didn't kill some innocent family instead of just injuring him?" I hate to sound callous, but he made the poor choices that led to his injury; by 20-something we all know what can happen when we are acting stupid. Usually it's innocent bystanders who pay the price -- this time it was the instigator who did. A terrible, heavy price, but one that was not unexpected. My sympathies are much more on the side of the many innocents who die each day, killed by drunk, sleepy, or reckless drivers like that young man.
- August 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM
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- August 20, 2010 at 5:46 AM
- Calamity Bird said...
How awful. And amazing, how suddenly everything can change. May he and his family get through this and adjust with love, patience and strength.
New reader here, directed to your blog by a friend. I have to resist the temptation to sit and read all the back posts in one long night! Your good humor and obvious compassion for people really shine through.
As a medical transcriptionist, I have an odd sort of window into people's lives myself. I have laughed over some of the (no permanent damage!) things people have gotten themselves into, and felt my heart break for others, but I never meet them. I have known physicians for years - their names, their voices, their ups and downs, sleepy ones and impatient ones, self-important ones and kind ones - who don't know that I exist (beyond that they must know there is *some*one out there listening to them!) You, sir, sound like one of the good ones. I'll bet you're even kind to the MTs.
...but you misspelled "priapism". (I'm sorry! It was making my MT reflexes twitch!)
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